Japanese Quotes - page 20

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind. (Carlos Ghosn)
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease. View quote
Dick Cavett
The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. View quote
Akihito
In this country we have the illusion that there's always this warm, loving community we belong to, but the other side of that is a sort of exclusiveness and xenophobia, and our food reflects that.Japanese cuisine isn't inclusive at all-infact it's extremely inhospitable to outsiders, to people who don't fit into the community. View quote
Ryu Murakami
One thing I have to say about Japanese anime is that there's a certain sort of tone there that bypasses the Asian part. And the characters really turn into something more Western. I'd like to see a true Japanese character. We don't need to make the eyes look round, we don't need the light in her hair. We can have dark hair and the eyes look like mine. They can be speaking English. We have Asian-Americans. And certainly there are plenty of people from Hawaii that are very Asian and totally local. It's part of America... View quote
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Nothing ever stops me. Certainly coming into Hollywood, I knew that there would be certain limitations. But I also couldn't play a woman or I couldn't play a white hero. To play Asian and to speak with accents because I speak Japanese, it never really bothered me. All I always look for in every piece is how can I use this piece to move to the next step? So the worst thing about playing Asian bad guys would be to not be remembered... View quote
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances. View quote
John Berger
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is. (Anthony Bourdain)
I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost. View quote
Nicolas Cage
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump. View quote
Matt Taibbi
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things. View quote
Arsène Wenger
The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
[I]f indigenousness were the key to state longevity on the peninsula, the Japanese would not have taken Korea so easily in 1910. Take it they did, of course, and their propaganda soon reached far more Koreans than had ever heard of the ancient sages. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
McCarthy was a Republican. The Democrats, however, have skeletons in their own closet and it's worth remembering them, too. For example, Democrat Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, who was just as rabid an anti-Communist as McCarthy, did far more to repress free speech and political freedom than McCarthy ever attempted. It wasn't a Republican president who locked up thousands of loyal Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps for years. It was Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. And it wasn't a Republican who wiretapped and snooped on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but Democrats John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, who signed the order as Attorney General. View quote
Bruce Bartlett
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology. View quote
Chuck Grassley
...there remains time to turn back the constitutional clock and roll back excessive post-9/11 powers before we turn the corner into another Japanese internment or, closer to our own experiences, before we witness a legally sanctioned Ruby Ridge or Waco scenario. View quote
Bob Barr
Japanese refer to Europe as a "museum" and America as a "farm." View quote
Robert Gilpin
All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. (Francis Ford Coppola)
What then do we propose? We propose the establishment, after the thorough defeat of the Japanese aggressors, of a state system which we call New Democracy, namely, a united-front democratic alliance based on the overwhelming majority of the people, under the leadership of the working class. View quote
Mao Zedong
The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family. View quote
Dave Barry
Monstress, however, was the product of many different ideas; my grandmother's experience of the Japanese occupation of China, for example, my desire to explore what it is to be monstrous. But it also had to do with women-more precisely the representation of women. View quote
Marjorie Liu
There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing. View quote
John Foster